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PC | Action | Crysis

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  • GRAPHICS: 5.00
  • SOUND: 4.50
  • CONTROL: 4.50
  • FUN FACTOR 4.75
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.2
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.6
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Feature: Console Crysis?

Feature by Chris Morell | 12/17/2006 | 17:00:12 PM PST

Crysis proves that PC games will always dominate consoles when it comes to bleeding-edge tech.

Click here to jump directly to an exclusive Q&A with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli.

It's official -- the technological power of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is fizzling into overwrought hype. Even the best looking and performing new-generation console games still fall short of the raw graphical power display by heavy-hitting PC games like Company of Heroes. Now, the next-generation of PC games is right around the corner, and they're poised to blow console gaming off the tech map once and for all. If you thought PC gaming was dead, think again.

In 2007, games like Hellgate: London, Spore, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two will help bring PC gaming back into the limelight. But it's Crysis that will really take gaming to the next level. The beauty of Crysis, though, is that it is being designed for a wide variety of PC specifications, not just the high-end rigs that cost a month's salary.

But judging by what we've seen and played, Crysis may be one game that's worth a big-budget PC upgrade.

The Far Cry Connection

Crysis is the offspring of German developer Crytek, developer of 2004's Far Cry, and the company's first game since joining forces with mega-publisher EA. The collaboration was a smart move for EA, especially considering Crytek's stellar, yet short, track record. Underdog Far Cry was a technological tour de force, matching and even exceeding the visual wow and gameplay appeal of Half-Life 2 and Doom 3. Even more impressive? It beat those over-hyped games to the punch by nearly six months. That's what we call under-promising and over-delivering.

Though they obviously share "Cry" in common, Far Cry and Crysis are two vastly different games. "There's no connection to Far Cry," says Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek. "Crysis is an entirely new game...and we are featuring an alien race that remains a closely guarded secret." Far Cry featured a race of genetically engineered mutants called Trigens. But in Crysis, it's strictly an alien affair.


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